1395 in history

1395 events chronologically

Apr 15

Tokhtamysh–Timur war: Battle of the Terek River: Timur defeats Tokhtamysh of the Golden Horde at the Volga. The Golden Horde capital city, Sarai, is razed to the ground and Timur installs a puppet ruler on the Golden Horde throne. Tokhtamysh escapes to Lithuania

May 17

Battle of Rovine, Wallachians defeat an invading Ottoman army

Born in 1395

Jan 11

Michelle of Valois
a Duchess consort of Burgundy.
She was a daughter of Charles VI of France and Isabeau of Bavaria. She was named for Saint Michael the Archangel after her father noted an improvement in his health after a pilgrimage to Mont Saint-Michel in 1393

Mar 18

John Holland 2nd Duke of Exeter
an English nobleman and military commander during the Hundred Years' War.

Sep 7

Reginald West 6th Baron De La Warr
the second son of Thomas West, 1st Baron West and Joan La Warre , widow of Ralph de Wilington of Sandhurst, Gloucestershire, and daughter of Roger La Warr, 3rd Baron De La Warr , by his second wife, Eleanor Mowbray, daughter of John de Mowbray, 3rd Baron Mowbray.
He had an elder brother, Thomas West, 2nd Baron West, a younger brother, John, and a sister Joan, who married firstly Richard Delabere and secondly William Catesby. He inherited the title of Baron West when his brother Thomas West, 2nd Baron West, was accidentally killed at sea on 29 or 30 September 1416, and the title Baron De La Warr in 1427 at the death of his uncle, Thomas la Warr, 5th Baron De La Warr

Top 7 most famous people died in 1395

Mar 13

John Barbour (poet)
a Scottish poet and the first major named literary figure to write in Scots.
His principal surviving work is the historical verse romance, The Brus , and his reputation from this poem is such that other long works in Scots which survive from the period are sometimes thought to be by him. He is known to have written a number of other works, but other titles definitely ascribed to his authorship, such as The Stewartis Oryginalle and The Brut , are now lost

May 17

Prince Marko
the de jure Serbian king from 1371 to 1395, while he was the de facto ruler of territory in western Macedonia centered on the town of Prilep.
He is known as Prince Marko and King Marko in South Slavic oral tradition, in which he has become a major character during the Ottoman occupation of the Balkans. Marko's father, King Vukašin, was co-ruler with Serbian Tsar Stefan Uroš V, whose reign was characterised by weakening central authority and the gradual disintegration of the Serbian Empire. Vukašin's holdings included lands in western Macedonia, Kosovo and Metohija. In 1370 or 1371, he crowned Marko "young king"; this title included the possibility that Marko would succeed the childless Uroš on the Serbian throne

May 17

Mary Queen of Hungary
the last member of the Capetian House of Anjou on the Hungarian throne, succeeded her father, Louis I, on 10 September 1382 with her mother, Elizabeth of Bosnia, as regent.
Betrothed to Sigismund of Luxembourg in her father's lifetime, the queen married him in April 1385. She was deposed in December in favour of her agnate, King Charles II of Hungary, but his brief reign ended with his murder at Elizabeth's instigation in February 1386. In July, however, the newly restored queen and her mother were captured and imprisoned, and the latter was murdered in January next year. Released by her husband in June 1387, Mary reigned with him until her death

May 17

Constantine Dragaš
a Serbian magnate that ruled a large province in eastern Macedonia under Ottoman suzerainty, during the fall of the Serbian Empire.
He succeeded his older brother Jovan Dragaš, who had been an Ottoman vassal since the Battle of Maritsa which had devastated part of the Serbian nobility. The brothers had their own government and minted coins according to the Nemanjić style. His daughter Jelena married Byzantine Emperor Manuel II Palaiologos in 1392. He fell at the Battle of Rovine , serving the Ottomans against Wallachia, fighting alongside Serbian magnates Stefan Lazarević and Marko Mrnjavčević

Jun 3

Ivan Shishman of Bulgaria
ruled as emperor of Bulgaria in Tarnovo from 1371 to 3 June 1395.
The authority of Ivan Shishman was limited to the central parts of the Bulgarian Empire. His indecisive and inconsistent policy did little to prevent the fall of his country under Ottoman rule. In 1393 the Ottoman Turks seized the capital Tarnovo. Two years later, they captured Ivan Shishman's last strongholds and executed him

Aug 29

Albert III Duke of Austria
Duke of Austria from 1365 until his death.

Sep 6

Stephen Dabiša of Bosnia
the King of Bosnia from 1391 to 1395 as a member of the Kotromanić dynasty.
He was possibly an illegitimate son of Vladislav Kotromanić and thus half-brother of King Stephen Tvrtko I